Wildfires in West Texas Could Creep Eastward
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photo by: Bob Daemmrich
Wildfire rages along a mountaintop outside of Alpine early in the morning of April 10, 2011
A string of wildfires has charred about 400,000 acres in drought-stricken West Texas. But as Erika Aguilar of KUT News reports, areas further east, also thirsting for water, may be just as vulnerable as the west.
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